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A man has been arrested after witnesses called police on him swinging a sword while wearing pajamas on the Empire State Building observation deck in New York.
The incident happened at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. ...

Police say a car crashed into a tree and burst into flames on Long Island, killing the driver and critically injuring two teenage passengers.
The crash occurred at around 8:45 a.m. Friday in Mastic Beach, N.Y.
Suffolk ...

A firefighter who died on Sept. 11, 2001 was laid to rest Tuesday, Sept. 10, after his remains were identified 18 years later.
Firefighters and loved ones gathered to mourn FDNY firefighter Michael Haub again after ...

A man was arrested for allegedly attempting to kidnap a 5-year-old boy outside Katz’s Deli in Lower Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 2.
Eric Visa, 46, reached the child when he was walking with his family outside ...

A 19-year-old has been arrested after allegedly texting with undercover agents that he was apparently planning an attack using a knife in the name of Islamic terror group ISIS in the New York City borough ...

Two Ontario, New York, teenage sisters are missing and police are asking the community to help.
Annabelle Weitzel-Guffey, 16, and her sister Lillian Bonamie-Guffey were last seen Friday, Aug. 23, around 6:30 p.m. in Honeoye Falls. ...

Two women who allegedly stole a baby stroller and accidentally left their own baby behind were arrested in New Jersey.
A group of women and children entered a Bambi Baby store in Middletown just before 6 ...

Nico Victorino of Chelsea, New York, said he felt unsafe and frightened as a man who randomly attacked four people on the streets of Manhattan had not been arrested.
“He was super bloody... He just looked, ...

Heartwarming footage captured the moment a jogger in Lower Manhattan took off his shoes and gave them to a homeless man, before walking away barefoot.
The video was posted to Twitter with the caption, 'It was ...

A Long Island man was arrested on Friday, Aug. 16, after he allegedly tried to pull over a van while impersonating a police officer except the problem was: the van was filled with real detectives.
Nassau ...

Jeffrey Epstein’s cause of death was ruled as suicide by hanging, the medical examiner’s office said on Aug. 16.
Chief medical examiner of New York City Dr. Barbara Sampson said her ruling came following a "careful ...

Police are looking for a person who was "observed in the area of the Fulton Street subway station with a shopping cart and a suspicious device," after three rice cookers were mistaken for pressure cooker ...

Off-duty NYPD officer Kimberly Lajara died in a fiery one-vehicle collision early Sunday morning, Aug. 11, in Manhattan.
Lajara, 24, was driving her 2016 Mercedes Benz along the Henry Hudson Parkway when she lost control and ...

New York Courts are expecting to see hundreds, if not thousands of lawsuits filed in the coming weeks and months after a new law goes effect on Wednesday, which provides adult victims of childhood sexual ...